... Neo is told that he'sright to think that the world is not what it seems. However, something always happens to convince the hero to change his mind. In The Matrix, Neo goes back to work ... being either sought out or roped into peculiarcircumstances is a common one in heroic tales; frequently, the would-be hero is swept up intosomething that he initially appears to have nothing ... DepartureBoth stories begin with calls to adventure for their heroes into situations those heroes neverexpected; in fact, at the outset, neither Neo in The Matrix, nor Luke in Star Wars, has...